rhyme

Rhyme is defined as to speak in words or phrases with the same ending sound or to create a written piece out of such phrases.

An example of rhyme is to say the words "bike" and "like."

An example of rhyme is what William Blake did when he wrote "The Lamb."

Humpty Dumpty is an example of a rhyme.

rhyme

noun

a piece of verse, or poem, in which there is a regular recurrence of corresponding sounds, esp. at the ends of lines

such verse or poetry in general

correspondence of sound between stressed syllables at the ends of words or lines of verse; specif., perfect rhyme (sense )

a word that corresponds with another in sound, esp. end sound

Origin of rhyme

Middle English rime ; from Old French ; from rimer, to rhyme, probably ; from Frankish an unverified form rim, row, series, akin to Old English Old High German rim, series, number ; from Indo-European an unverified form rei- (from source Old Irish rim, number) ; from base an unverified form are-, to join, fit (from source art, ratio, rite): form influenced, influence by associated, association with Classical Latin rhythmus, rhythm

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For nature beats in perfect tune,And rounds with rhyme her every rune,Whether she work in land or sea,Or hide underground her alchemy.Thou canst not wave thy staff in air,Or dip thy paddle in the lake,But it carves the bow of beauty there,And the ripples in rhymes the oar forsake. Ralph Waldo Emerson